Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-27
A REFRIGERATOR.
Why Extensive Works Should be Es,ab-
Iished at Fort Worth,

Hsh6d AT Fort W ORTIZ
DOUBLE STRINGS, TEX Feb. "a, 1887
To the Editor OF the Gazette.
| am aware thar there has been al
effort made by the Fort 10 establish i re
frigerator.
In an interview st Kansas City few
weeks ago, Ike 7. Pryor OF Austin, Tex
who for seventeen years, in conjunction
with his brother, A. NJ. Pryor OF Poe bio
Col, has been running one OF the largest
ranches in the Panhandle, ssid in answer
to the question: "Will there be bic
shipments in The spring."
81 can't say for the northern cattle, but
as far as l am able to learn, and from
what | have seen, the Texas drive Will
not be very heavy this year. There is a
scheme on foot among the larger ranch
owners of our state to do the killing
and dressing Of the beeves right there
st home. 4 refrigerator committee was
appointed some time ago 10 open negotia-
tiOns with the different towns in Texas 10
find out how much and to what extent
they were willing to lend their AID in this
enteI prise. Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston
ald other points were addressed. The
object OF the committee is to start in one
of these cities a big refrigerator plant
worth at least 81, 100000 and to dress
the beeves for shipment right there. A
refrigerator system, capable OF caring for
the csrcasSes Of from 500 to 600 beeves q
day will be established in the city offering
us the best inducements. We had thought
Of Kansas City, but it is too far from the
cattle supply"
Now | don't know who else to appeal
to than THE GAzETTE-they all do it, Re-
publicans as well as Democrats. What
would be the use in establishing q Texas
refrigerator in Kansas City, or atethe
"Twln Village" thirty miles east Of mere,
when more central locality is accessible?
1t would only necessitute carting or dffv-
ing stock that much further out OF the
way of the range proper. What made
Chicago great? Principally her live stock
market. What is making Kansas City
great to day? Her railroads ,iiVe sdcs
market and packing houses; journal and
Times legitimately booming her.
Fort Worth has the Northumberland THE
GAZETTE. To secure 81 900, 900 fefri =
orator would be "great." II would make
Fort Worth great; would be equsl t. al
most all of her railroads. Now, by all
honorable means, for the sake of Fort
Worth's future and the country surround,
ing her, do not let the opportunity pass
by. Ills true the Fort has donated quite
sum OF money within the last few years
towards securing her railroads, aad
money matters may be trlfe stringent.
However, it may not be so much a ques-
ton of money-big bonus-as local
ity, receiving and shipping facilities
anG Other advantages mat enter
into an enterprise like the one in guess
ton. Perhaps it would be good scheme
to call a convention Of stockmep, 80 IS
to more fully present, discuss ana Argue
the more fOrcIbiy the advantages possess
ed by the Fort. =;
Possibly the AtchisoD, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad people could be III
duced to become interested in the scheme
They have keen eye to business and can
see q good thing IS far as any one. The
extra traffic that it would occasion to-
wards the gulf for shipment abroad
would be no small item. l have never
been in "Canada," but have been nearly
all over the United States and part OF
Mexico, and had l S5O0,O0 to-day the.
greater part l would invest in Fort
Worth, for she presents a grand, great
future. G. B. d.